Quotes About Relevance

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?

The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Timeliness is best in all matters.